Many well-known Christians and Christian leaders posted tributes to Ravi Zacharias on social media after the latest news on the famous apologist’s health. 

Sarah Davis, Zacharias’s daughter and the CEO of Ravi Zacharias International Ministry, posted an update to the ministry’s website which offered a sober appraisal of her father’s health. 

Davis said, “We have just learned that while the tumor in my dad’s sacrum has been responding to the chemotherapy, the area where the cancer metastasized has actually worsened. His oncologist informed us that this cancer is very rare in its aggression and that no options for further treatment remain. Medically speaking, they have done all they are able.”

She also said that he is on his way to his home in Atlanta, “where our family can be together for whatever time the Lord gives us.”

Following this news, former NFL Quarterback Tim Tebow posted a tearful video on Twitter asking his followers to pray for Zacharias. Tebow began, “I think it’s really important in life to have heroes, and especially in the faith, and one of my heroes of the faith is a man name Ravi Zacharias. He’s not doing very well.” Then Tebow asked his followers to write messages of encouragement to Zacharias and share testimonies about his influence in their lives. 

The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner hoped to show the messages to “Ravi and his team”…

A recent Pew Research survey revealed that 43 percent of all American adults believe the Trump administration has “helped interests of evangelical Christians.”

According to the survey, which was conducted in mid-February, while 43 percent of all American adults believe the Trump administration has “helped interests of evangelical Christians,” 11 percent of all American adults believe the President’s administration has hurt the evangelical Christian agenda and 44 percent do not believe the administration has made much of an impact on evangelical interests at all.

Among white evangelical Protestants, 59 percent believe the President and his administration have positively impacted evangelical interests, while seven percent believe their interests have been hurt and 32 percent believe little to no difference was made. 

Overall, the survey found that 64 percent of White Evangelicals “agree with Trump on all, nearly all or many issues”, whereas only 15 percent of Black Protestants, 30 percent of Hispanic Catholics, 32 percent of Jews and 28 percent of religiously unaffiliated people agree with Trump “on all, nearly all or many issues.”

Furthermore, while 48 percent of all U.S. adults agree that the President “fights for what [they] believe in” at least fairly well, among White evangelical Protestants, 81 percent believe the President…

A Mississippi pastor advanced to the finals of NBC’s The Voice during Tuesday night’s results show and expressed surprise in a late-night video he had made it that far.

“I cannot believe this,” Todd Tilghman, the lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Meridian, Miss., said in a Facebook Live video on his Facebook page. “… I’m grateful for every minute of it.”

Tilghman will sing in next Monday’s finals, which includes five performers. The winner will be revealed in next Tuesday’s show. He joked he’s “four or five episodes past” his goal.

Tilghman sang the 1991 country song Love, Me by Collin Raye during Monday’s performance, with his eight children sitting around him, watching. His performance impressed Kelly Clarkson, one of the show’s four coaches.

“If I could sound like a man singing, I would want your voice,” she said.

Tilghman told his Facebook Live audience he couldn’t have advanced to the finals by himself. The show relies on the votes of the audience.  

“I just sing – and that’s it. The rest is all you. … and the goodness of God,” he said. “… I am so, so thankful that God has seen fit for this to go the way that it has.”

Tilghman is a member of Team Blake, which means he works with and is coached by country singer Blake Shelton.

“I think America’s connecting with Todd because he’s just the happiest person on the…

JOS, Nigeria, May 13, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Lami David was in her kitchen preparing dinner for her family in north-central Nigeria on Thursday evening (May 7) when two Muslim Fulani herdsmen broke into her home and shot her and her mother-in-law, sources said.

The 32-year-old mother of four had her 2-year-old wrapped on her back in her home in predominantly Christian Nkietohu village, Plateau state, when she heard the first shots in the room where her mother-in-law, 60-year-old Elizabeth (Lisa) Nchu, was resting, according to community leader Josiah Zongo.

Her mother-in-law was shot in the shoulder, and David was then shot in her chest and legs, Zongo said.

“The woman was shot with her baby on her back – the child was not hurt as well as other children were not,” Zongo told Morning Star News. “The woman was found lying in a pool of blood behind the house where she’d tried to run away from the gunmen. She fell down because of the shot. She was also heard saying it was the Fulani herdsmen who came from Rafin Bauna village, a nearby Hausa/Fulani community.”

Her husband, who was in his room with the other three children at the time of the attack, escaped, Zongo said. The family was sheltering in their home at 7:45 p.m. due to a curfew to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

“The gunmen also followed the man as he ran for his life but could not get him,” he said.

David…

(RNS) — Brian Kaylor didn’t realize how the coronavirus pandemic — with its stay-at-home orders, school closures and other distancing measures — was emotionally impacting his 8-year-old son, Kagan, until the children’s minister at their church started sharing a nightly bedtime story.

In the first storytime video, posted on Facebook and Vimeo, the minister at First Baptist Church in Jefferson City, Missouri, talked about feeling sad and angry.

“How is she reading my mind?” Kagan asked.

The second-grader is struggling with not seeing his friends, and the videos have been a comfort, said Kaylor, editor and president of Baptist magazine Word&Way.

Kaylor pulls the videos up each night on his phone, and his son disappears into another room to watch, usually wrapped up in a blanket, he said.

Kagan runs to the screen when the same minister gives the children’s messages during online services. He shows off his latest Lego builds to his friends during Wednesday Wave sessions she hosts for the kids on Zoom.

“I think my son needs the social interaction and comfort from our church community right now even more than I do,” Kaylor said. “So, I appreciate ministers working to create that space virtually.”

As the coronavirus continues to upend daily life in the United States, churches and Christian leaders are finding ways to relieve bored and anxious children unable to leave their homes — as well as their…

A Michigan sheriff is receiving national attention after questioning the governor’s lockdown orders and saying his office doesn’t have the resources to enforce restrictions on non-essential businesses and citizens leaving their homes. 

The comments by Shiawassee County Sheriff Brian BeGole, made in a press release but also posted on Facebook, have gone viral – especially in light of a barbershop in his county that is defying orders of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer by opening.  

Sheriffs’ offices in at least six Michigan counties have said they won’t enforce Whitmer’s orders, the Detroit News reported. 

“The women and men of the Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of Michigan,” BeGole said. “Through this period of uncertainty, I continue to remind myself that we derive our authority from the consent of the governed, the great people of Michigan.”

The legality of Whitmer’s orders, he said, is a “judicial branch determination.” The state legislature, he said, “did not extend the state of emergency beyond April 30 as required by law.” 

“I have decided, within my authority, that our office cannot and will not divert our primary resources and efforts toward enforcement of Gov. Whitmer’s executive orders,” BeGole said. “I want…

Close to 500 California pastors are planning on re-opening their churches regardless of whether they have the state’s approval.

“The churches are not asking for permission,” said religious freedom attorney Bob Tyler, who is advising the pastors, CBN News reports. 

“The governor is sitting here as a dictator, trumping the Constitution and is kind of hanging on to this state of emergency for as long as he can hold it,” he added.

Tyler noted that several of the pastors have already signed a petition asking California’s Governor Gavin Newsom to allow churches to meet if they commit to adhering to social distancing regulations.

According to the petition, the pastors are committed to opening up by May 31st as it is “The Day of Pentecost … also known as the birthday of the Christian church.” This year on May 31, marks “the 1,990th anniversary of the original Day of Pentecost that occurred in the year A.D. 30.”

“We declare that on May 31, 2020, or sooner, we will resume corporate worship as instructed in Hebrews 10:24-25”, the petition asserts.

According to Tyler, the pastors are “committed to opening regardless of what the governor decides.”

The petition also stipulates that the pastors also plan on advising Gov. Gavin Newsom on their plans to respect social distancing guidelines while still meeting in-person for church.

Pastor Matt Brown of Sandals Church in…